Greater Reach for your Research: Author’s Rights & the Shifting Landscape of Scholarly Communication Lisa Goddard & Shannon Gordon Memorial University Libraries February 19 th, 2010

University Environment Copyright is automatically granted to author upon the creation of an original work in a tangible medium. Most universities have agreements stating that faculty own copyright in their scholarly works.

Copyrights reproduce distribute publicly display publicly perform prepare derivative works

Transferring Rights assign ownership of copyright grant permission via license all rights? exclusive? perpetual?

Publisher Agreements Academic authors traditionally transfer exclusive, full copyrights to the publishers of the journals in which their articles appear. Many disadvantages to this approach…

Subscribers Only

No Google

No Course Packs

No Course Websites

No Professional Websites

No Sharing with Colleagues

No Linking from Others

No Reuse

No Preservation Guarantee

No Institutional Archiving

Non-compliance with Funders Each federal research funding agency should expeditiously but carefully develop and implement an explicit public access policy that brings about free public access to the results of the research that it funds as soon as possible after those results have been published in a peer ‐ reviewed journal. - US Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, 2010

YOU may not have access

No Mashups

Transformative Technologies Text Visualization

Current Situation ⇒ Publicly funded projects ⇒ Faculty time & expertise ⇒ Rights given to commercial publisher free of charge ⇒ Academic community purchases the work back from publisher

Retain Your Rights: CAUT To promote scholarly communication, autonomy, integrity and academic freedom, and education and research activities more generally, it is important for academic staff to retain copyright in their journal articles. (CAUT advisory, 2008)

Open Access Options CARL Author Addendum Creative Commons Licensing

Canadian Author Addendum Publishers require only permission to publish an article, not a wholesale transfer of copyright. Grant specific rights while holding back rights for yourself and others.

Creative Commons Licenses legally valid no charge prevents some uses of a work without permission, authorizes others.

Creative Commons Licenses Attribution Attribution Non-commercial Attribution No Derivatives Attribution Share Alike

Institutional OA Policies Collective, university-wide action. Faculty agreements to retain author rights, and allow open access to intellectual output.

Harvard

Stanford

MIT

Guelph

York

Benefits to Authors visibility & citation access to global research output control over use and re-use of work funding agency compliance preservation & archiving custom presentation layers

Benefits to Institution reduced cost for journal access less identity-management overhead access to university research output institutional mashups greater transparency for data higher research profile for university

Benefits to Scholarship free access for all reduce cost of academic publishing improve interdisciplinarity large scale storage and preservation efforts without intellectual property barriers

Your options 1.Publish in an OA journal  The “gold” road to OA 2.Submit to an OA repository  The “green” road to OA

Gold OA Publishing in OA journals You retain ownership/control 100% free access There are no access barriers What do OA journals look like?

Open Medicine

PLOS Biology

Where can I publish?

Do any fees exist?

OA author funds University of Calgary Simon Fraser University University of Ottawa Compact for OA Publishing Equity

Green OA Self-archiving in an OA repository Preprints, postprints, or both Institutional Disciplinary

Harvard

University of Toronto

University of Ottawa

arXiv

PubMed Central Canada

What repositories exist?

Can I archive my work?

Why self-archive? Funding agency policies Canadian Cancer Society  6 months Canadian Institute of Health Research  6 months National Institute of Health  12 months Scholarly Publishing Roundtable

Funding requirements

The details

Publishing service

Health Research Repository

Submission process

Why the fuss? More exposure Increased impact Universal access Easier information discovery Persistent access Long-term preservation Meet conditions of grant agencies

Looking ahead OA is here to stay New funding policies New OA author funds MUN institutional repository

Questions?

Recommended readings Canadian Association of Research Libraries. (2005). CARL institutional repository program. Retrieved from abrc.ca/projects/institutional_repositories/institutional _repositories-e.html. Harnad, S. (February 2010). The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies. The Open Citation Project – Reference linking and citation analysis for open archives. Retrieved from Scholarly Publishing Roundtable. (2010). Report and recommendations from the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable. Retrieved from d=6894.